Bodega Catena Zapata Malbec Argentino

Red
Argentina
Mendoza
Malbec

Tracked vintages: 20
Community notes: 623
Merchant offers: 164

What we know about this wine

Critics: 97/ 1002020 · nearest vintage with a critic score
Real drinkers: 91/ 100623 notes, every vintage
Market price: £87per 75 cl2022 · nearest vintage with a price · single-bottle shop ask, October 2026
Drinking window: 2022–2035peak2020 · nearest vintage with a window

Flavour and structure

What drinkers taste in this wine across its vintages, and how it is built: body, acidity, tannin and sweetness on a five-point scale, with the number of ratings behind them.

Structure from 8,777 community ratings, read 2026-08-12. Style: Argentinian Mendoza Malbec Red.

Body4.0 / 5: LightFull
Acidity2.7 / 5: SoftCrisp
Tannin2.6 / 5: SmoothGrippy
Sweetness2.1 / 5: DrySweet

Black fruit · blackberry, plum, blueberry, black fruit, dark fruit
Oak · oak, vanilla, chocolate, tobacco, dark chocolate
Earth · leather, earthy, smoke, minerals, cocoa
Red fruit · cherry, red fruit, raspberry, strawberry, cranberry
Spice · pepper, licorice, cinnamon, mint, savory
Floral · violet, lavender, perfume, lilac, jasmine

Grapes: Malbec. Proportions are not recorded.

Descriptors are the words drinkers used most, grouped; counts are mentions. Tannin is shown only where it was measured.

Realised in-bond trades£37–£80Shop asks£87–£87GBP per 75 cl · 13 priced vintages

2004One point per priced vintage. Years with no price we can stand behind are not drawn.2022

Vintages

Each vintage has its own page with both scores, the drinking window and the merchant price range. The meter is the score on a 60-100 scale and its colour is where that vintage stands against its own drinking window. Prices are per 75cl, with the case size and month they were taken from.

Peakinside the middle half of its stated window
Drinkinginside its stated window
Past its windowits window has closed
Window not recordedthe vintage carries no window, so the meter shows its score alone

Best scored: 2019; 97 / 100 from a critic
Drinking now: 2019; peak, window 2021–2039
Lowest price: 2011; £37 per 75 cl

Price by vintage

One monthly median per vintage, divided by the case size it was quoted in, so the bars are the same unit. These are our own aggregates, not offers: nobody will sell you a median.

Solid: a realised in-bond tradeHatched: what a merchant is asking, which nobody has paid

Malbec Argentino monthly median by vintage, per 75cl · Each bar is one month of one SKU; the table below names the case size, the tape and the month behind every figure. 3 vintages are priced in a case size the merchant did not state, so no per-bottle figure is drawn for them

View as a table

Malbec Argentino monthly median by vintage, per 75cl
Vintage	Price / 75cl	Critic score	In drink window	Basis
2022	£87	—	—	per 75cl, from a single-bottle shop ask, October 2026
2020	£62	96.5	Yes	per 75cl, from a 3000 ml in-bond trade, November 2022
2019	£74	96.7	Yes	per 75cl, from a 1500 ml in-bond trade, July 2026
2018	£68	94	Yes	per 75cl, from a 4-bottle in-bond trade, June 2026
2015	£61	94	Yes	per 75cl, from a 4-bottle in-bond trade, July 2022
2013	£52	93.8	No	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, January 2025
2012	£80	94.7	No	per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, August 2021
2011	£37	94.5	Yes	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, April 2025
2010	£48	93.3	No	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, November 2024
2009	£37	94.5	Yes	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, February 2017
2006	£38	95	—	per 75cl, from a 6000 ml in-bond trade, August 2025
2005	£59	93.8	Yes	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, May 2015
2004	£44	96.5	Yes	per 75cl, from a 6000 ml in-bond trade, May 2025

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